Bungie’s Destiny: Promising Lofty and Ambitious Ideas

Gi - Bungie‘s Destiny is ambitious. That is putting it mildly actually. The game is promising some insanely zealous goals for players with its story and gameplay. Destiny is a persistent world, first-person shooter where players will explore a shared world with gamers all across the globe. As a persistent world game, the world will move forward even when the player is not present. Plus, the player’s actions to some extent will shape and influence Destiny’s world and possibly lead to events in the game that Bungie had no control of or planned to happen. The game will be always-online and Bungie wants players to come together to explore and shape Destiny’s worlds while building their own Legend. This act of the player affecting Destiny and leaving their mark on the game is what Bungie is aiming for.

What concerns me is the lack of discussion of the unacceptable levels of lag and input lag that have plagued nearly every co-op feature of the Halo games. The problem has persisted for years and no one seems bothered by it. I'm expecting Destiny to be no different.